The roof line of the Homestead Center is meant to represent "a single bottom plow moving through the sod". It sits on the Daniel Freeman homestead near Beatrice, Nebraska. Daniel Freeman filed the first homestead claim in Brownville, Nebraska on January 1, 1863.
The cut-out in each state depicts the percentage of land given away by that state during the Homestead Act. Can you find Oregon?
The parking lot is exactly one acre and marked on the four corners by these flags. The Homestead Act of 1882 allowed any qualified person to claim up to 160 acres of federally owned land in exchange for 5 years of residence and the cultivation and improvement of the property.
Palmer - Epard Cabin, the cabin was 14'x16' and home to a family with 12 children. The cabin was built in 1867 and lived in for over 60 years before being converted to grain storage. Originally it was 14 miles to the northeast.
The Freeman School is the longest continuously used one-room school in Nebraska history. The Freeman School was also the focus of an early, influential judicial decision regarding separation of church and state. Daniel Freeman sued the school board after teacher, Edith Beecher, refused to stop praying, reading the Bible, and singing gospel songs in her classroom.
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